Definition of Hot and Warm Server Disaster Recovery
As with disaster recovery,
there are hot and warm server disaster recovery terms that again
revolve around your backup system,
server backup,
backup tool, and possibly an
ftp drive. First, hot server disaster recovery refers to the
situation when a user wishes to recover and reconfigure servers
at a remote site as quickly as possible (or continuously) in order to ensure the
when the primary server fails, the backup can take over. This is often done automatically,
set up by a program as it would be too tedious to do it manually.
Warm server disaster recovery, the server located at the
secondary location are set up to take over a primary location
server, and the backup server receives only periodic updates. A
cold server is ready to go with installed software (but usually
no data) and remains off until needed.
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